Rocha
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: large rock
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/hɔʃɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rocha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Portugal than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common surname.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 184(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 198
- NINicaragua≈1 in 285
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Portugal (inferred from the name graph)
- #254 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 421 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 184 (inferred from the name graph)
≈56,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
large rock
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Rocha is read(measured from records)
Rocha is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese71%
large rock
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
rock (formation of minerals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish20%
debushing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.8%
city, dept, Uruguay
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rocha counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PT Portugal | #32 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 184 | — | Rocha | 190 |
| US United States | — | 55,251 | 1 in 6K | 55K | Rocha | 421 |
| BO Bolivia | #15 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 329 | — | Rocha | 73 |
| AR Argentina | #230 | 26,083 | 1 in 1.7K | 26K | Rocha | 111 |
| CO Colombia | #262 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 26 | Rocha | 148 |
| AO Angola | #41 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Rocha | 45 |
| NI Nicaragua | #32 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 285 | — | Rocha | 54 |
| UY Uruguay | #33 | 17,120 | 1 in 198 | 17K | Rocha | 70 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Rocha is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
rochas; principal place: Amsterdam, Aleppo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Portugal, Dutch Brazil, Buenos Aires
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Galician, rock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Miguel Torgab. 1907PTnot in their usual namePortuguese writer (1907-1995)
- Red Rochab. 1923USAmerican basketball player and coach (1923–2010)
- Paulo Soares da Rochab. 1935PTPortuguese film director (1935–2012)
- Glauber Rochab. 1939BRBrazilian film director, actor and writer (1939–1981)
- Pedro Rochab. 1942UYUruguayan association football player and manager (1942–2013)
- Kali Rochab. 1971USAmerican actress
- Roberto Carlosb. 1973BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian footballer
- Ricardo Rochab. 1978PTPortuguese footballer
- Adi Rochab. 1985BRBrazilian association football player
- Coco Rochab. 1988CACanadian fashion model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 50 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 55K | #613 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 54K | #612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 42K | #744 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 26K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17K | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 26 | #90 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rocha mean, and where does it come from?
- large rock Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
- How do you pronounce Rocha?
- A machine transcription gives /hɔʃɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Rocha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 56 thousand people named Rocha in Portugal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rocha.
- How common is the name Rocha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 55,251 people named Rocha in 2010, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Rocha compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Rocha is the 32nd most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rochaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rocha” — the 32nd most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.